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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Future of Intelligence Seminar: Former MI6 Chief on Intelligence and Good Policy Making

Sir John McLeod Scarlett, KCMG OBE, former
Chief of British Secret Intelligence Service (MI 6), will speak on
“Intelligence and Good Policy Making.” Sir John Scarlett served as Chief of the British Secret
Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) from August 2004 to October 2009.
He joined SIS in 1971 and over the next 20 years served in Nairobi,
Paris and twice in Moscow as well as several assignments in London
covering the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union. His second time in Moscow (1991–1994) coincided with the end
of the USSR and the early years of the Russian Federation. In early
September 2001 he retired from SIS on appointment as Chairman of
the Joint Intelligence Committee in the Cabinet Office. He rejoined
SIS as Head of the Service in 2004. Sir John was born in
London and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where, in 1970, he
was awarded First Class Honours in Modern History. Since leaving
SIS he has served as a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley. He is
Chairman of the Strategy Advisory Committee at Statoil and a member
of the Advisory Boards at Swiss Re and PwC. He is a Director of
Times Newspaper Holdings, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal
United Services Institute (RUSI), Honorary Visiting Professor at
the University of Exeter, Chairman of the Bletchley Park Trust and
Trustee of the Imperial War Museum. Other trusteeships include the
Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, the Friends of the
French Institute, London and the Defence and National
Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC). Sir John was appointed OBE
(Officer of the British Empire) in 1987, CMG (Commander of St
Michael and St George) in 2001 and KCMG in 2007. In 2011 Sir John
was appointed Officier of the Légion d’Honneur. This seminar is off the record and comments cannot be
published without the consent of the speaker. The seminar is
open to Harvard students, fellows, faculty and ID card
holders.